Careers Delivered from the Kitchen? Immigrant Women Small-scale Entrepreneurs Working in the Growing Nordic Platform Economy

Webster, Natasha A.; Zhang, Qian

doi:10.1080/08038740.2020.1714725

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“…While food production has always been a gendered activity (Webster & Zhang, 2020 ), the market linkage has always been dominated by men. Kashyap's ( 1987 ) work on Indian street food vending also highlights that food is primarily sold by men, with women supporting their male partners in assembling the food or in cleaning at their vending carts.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Women's Work and Control Over Household Labormentioning

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Merging the public and private spheres of women's work: Narratives from women street food vendors during Covid‐19 crisis

Guha

Neti

Lobo

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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Feminist economists have long questioned the dichotomy between the “private” versus “public” spheres of women's work and have argued for a more nuanced understanding of the marketable paid work and the unpaid work of household caregiving. This paper focuses on women street food vendors' (SFVs) experiences before and during Covid‐19 pandemic to understand how street food vending as a livelihood activity interacts with social dimensions like gender and division of labor. Through multiple in‐depth interviews with 23 women street vendors in Bengaluru, India, before and during the pandemic, we show that there is a blurring of the dichotomy between the work done in the private and public spaces before the pandemic, which is disrupted by Covid‐19 crisis. The first half of the paper explores the household labor dynamics in the context of paid and unpaid work of women and explains how the women SFVs, capitalizing on their existing skills of “ cooking ,” were able to gain agency and recognition for themselves within the households. The second half of the paper focuses on the narratives of the same women SFVs during the first wave of the Covid pandemic and the subsequent lockdown. We find that the Covid crisis brought back the dichotomy between private and public spheres, making it more pronounced, with women losing their control over the public sphere and their work being restricted only to the private sphere.

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Section: Theoretical Framework: Women's Work and Control Over Household Labormentioning

confidence: 99%

Merging the public and private spheres of women's work: Narratives from women street food vendors during Covid‐19 crisis

Guha

Neti

Lobo

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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“…Individuals who offer services in the collaborative economy through platforms might have then either wage employment and a wish to increase their disposable household income by occasionally selling through platforms (Delacroix et al. , 2019), or they represent professionals, who are already self-employed and use collaborative-economy platforms for their self-employment (Webster and Zhang, 2020; Parker et al. , 2017).…”

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Individual-contextual determinants of entrepreneurial service provision in the platform-based collaborative economy

Leick

Falk

Eklund

et al. 2022

IJEBR

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PurposeThis article examines the nature of service provision in the platform-based collaborative economy from the perspective of entrepreneurship theories. It departs from a knowledge gap about the individual and contextual determinants of service provision through digital platforms. By exploring these determinants for the service provision in two main sectors of the collaborative economy, transportation and accommodation, the study provides a first conceptual introduction of these activities and their nature for the existing entrepreneurship research.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis is based upon Eurobarometer microdata (2018), covering 28 European countries with about 27,000 observations, and uses a seemingly unrelated Probit model.FindingsThe likelihood of service provision through platforms in the collaborative economy is highest for individuals aged 25–34 years but decreases continuously with age. Occupation, sex and population density of the place of residence are other relevant determinants. By contrast, the regulatory system and GDP per capita of the region are not relevant.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings illuminate the under-studied individual and contextual determinants related to individuals engaging with entrepreneurial activities in the collaborative economy. Future research should investigate the role of previous self-employment, skills and spatial context.Practical implicationsThe collaborative economy is still a marginal sector in Europe that is likely to grow bigger. Particularly the young, highly educated entrepreneurial persons located in urban regions may spur this expected growth. Supporting policy measures aimed at this social stratum might foster digital entrepreneurship and contribute to growth in the digital economy.Originality/valueBy exploring the individual and contextual determinants for the service provision in the two main sectors of the platform-based collaborative economy, transportation and accommodation, the study provides a first conceptual introduction of these activities and their nature into existing entrepreneurship research.

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“…These women's formal and informal learning was dominated by institutional processes that favor their host culture. However, immigrant women may be viewed as being culturally deficient, whereby desirable learning for them is defined as consistent with the host and institutional culture [35]. Namely, immigrant businesswomen's learning, which was enforced by their pursuit of running an entrepreneurship, may become a kind of symbolic violence, functioning as a mechanism to legitimate the existing social order in their host self-employment market [36].…”

Section: Vietnamese Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs' Professional Identity Being Conditioned By Institutional Recognitionmentioning

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Entrepreneurship Experiences among Vietnamese Marriage Immigrant Women in Taiwan

2022

Sustainability

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Since the 1990s, Taiwan has experienced growing numbers of commercially arranged marriages between Vietnamese women and socioeconomically disadvantaged Taiwanese men. Most Vietnamese marriage immigrant women proactively engage in the labor market due to the heavy financial burden of their Taiwanese and natal families. Employing a sociocultural and post-structural feminist approach, this study draws from life-story interviews of 13 married Vietnamese women to investigate the entrepreneurship experiences among Vietnamese marriage immigrant women in Taiwan. These women are pushed and pulled towards creating demanding micro-entrepreneurships based on their self-employed socialization, thereby fulfilling family obligations and achieving career goals. Targeting their host market, these women operate their businesses using Taiwanese customer networks and their institutionalized learning and sustainable resilience while negotiating self-identity. Running entrepreneurships empowers these women, facilitating their self-identity, social integration, family position within the boundaries of gender, family expectations, and business while they struggle with unexpected challenges. Clearly, these individuals and their significant others, homeland culture and socialization, and their life experiences and positions in Taiwan shape these immigrant women’s businesses and their sense of meaning. This study extends the feminist perspective of this topic, focusing on the sustainable agency and sense of competence of female marriage immigrants.

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Careers Delivered from the Kitchen? Immigrant Women Small-scale Entrepreneurs Working in the Growing Nordic Platform Economy

Cited by 45 publications

References 38 publications

Merging the public and private spheres of women's work: Narratives from women street food vendors during Covid‐19 crisis

Merging the public and private spheres of women's work: Narratives from women street food vendors during Covid‐19 crisis

Individual-contextual determinants of entrepreneurial service provision in the platform-based collaborative economy

Entrepreneurship Experiences among Vietnamese Marriage Immigrant Women in Taiwan

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